baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2583373-A (GB)
Title: Scroll pump crank sleeve
Inventor: ALAN ERNEST KINNAIRD HOLBROOK
IPC: F16F15/28
Filed: 2019-04-26
Abstract: A crank sleeve 4 configured to provide a radial offset from the axis of rotation of the crank shaft 5, with an integral counterbalance 6 for imparting an orbital path to the orbital scroll and reducing pump vibration. The sleeve may have a first eccentric portion 7, and a second portion 11 comprising the counterbalance offset longitudinally from the first portion. It may comprise a conduit 13 for receiving the crank shaft, which may be longer than the first portion in a longitudinally and may have a first portion to conduit length ratio of 1:1.3 to about 1.3, or 1:1.5 to about 1:2.5. the sleeve may have an external surface coupled to a bearing 10, preferably the inner race of a rolling or ball bearing. The sleeve may be machined from a single piece of material. Claimed is a scroll pump comprising the above sleeve. The pump may have a crank sleeve as above couple to an orbital scroll bearing and biasing the bearing in a fixed scroll direction. The crank sleeve may be removably fixed to the drive shaft by a non-permanent fixing providing said bias to the orbital scroll bearing.
Patent GB-2572270-A (GB)
Title: Composite moulding materials
Inventor: Nigel Ashley Blatherwick
IPC: B82Y30/00
Filed: 2018-05-09
Abstract: A method of manufacture of a composite moulding material 1100 comprising a fibrous layer 1102 and a graphene/graphitic dispersion 1104, comprised of graphene nanoplates or graphite flakes, applied to the fibrous layer at one or more selected localised regions 1106 over a surface 1108 of the fibrous layer in which the dispersion is applied using at least one valvejet print head 1112. Preferably, the valvejet printhead, which may have heating means 1118, has a nozzle diameter of between 50-600microns, and the dispersion is pressurised or stored at pressures of up to 689.5kpa prior to application. The dispersion may be stored in a heated reservoir prior to application. The valvejet printhead and/or the fibrous layer may move relative to each other to selectively apply the dispersion in an array or pattern. The graphene/graphitic material preferably comprises a carrier medium such as a resin, wherein the dispersion may have a viscosity of 1-75 centipoise. The valvejet printhead, incorporating at least one needle valve 1114, may be less prone to clogging than thermal or piezoelectric inkjet printheads. A composite moulding material comprising a graphene/graphitic material in one or more regions between fibrous layers is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2588772-A (GB)
Title: Chair with adjustable foot rest
Inventor: EMMA FAHY
IPC: A47C7/50
Filed: 2019-11-05
Abstract: A chair having a seat (7, fig. 1) and a foot rest (11, fig.1) the foot rest being adjustable relative to the seat. The adjustment mechanism comprises a slide element 15 having an adjustment axis; a guide 13 associated with the slide element and permitting relative movement along the adjustment axis; a ratchet profile (19, fig.3) associated with the slide element and extending along the adjustment axis; and a detent (32, fig.4) associated with the guide to engage the ratchet profile, the detent preventing movement of the footrest away from the seat. The detent may be a manually operable spring loaded plunger. Preferably, the slide element moves with the foot rest, and the guide is fixed to the seat. Also claimed is a chair and footrest having an adjustment mechanism comprising a pivot member (51, fig. 12) having a pivot axis; a latching profile (63-67, fig.12) extending circumferentially and axially around the pivot member; a latch member (40, fig.8) movable axially of the pivot member and a latch element carried by the latch member to engage the latching profile, the latch element holding the foot rest in different angular positions depending on the axial position of the latch member.
Patent GB-2594318-A (GB)
Title: Tool
Inventor: TYRONE HARNETT
IPC: B23B51/04
Filed: 2020-04-23
Abstract: A device comprising a first part 14 adapted to be received by a power tool and a second part 20 adapted to cooperate with a core drill bit 12, the first and second parts being releasably couplable to one another by means of a releasable coupling comprising a coupling pin 30 that extends into aligned apertures 26, 28 formed in the first and second parts, and a resilient retaining clip section 32 that extends around at least part of, and engages, the first or second part to retain the coupling pin in position. Preferably the first part has an axial projection 16 that is received within an axial recess in the second part. The projection and recess may both be circular in cross-section. Preferably the second part comprises and axial passage 22 along its length. A rigid rod (36, fig 3) of smaller external diameter than the internal diameter of the axial passage may be introduced into the passage in order to dislodge a core located in the core drill bit.
Patent GB-2595887-A (GB)
Title: Method, device, and computer program for improving transmission of data in daisy-chain networks
Inventor: PIERRE VISA
IPC: H04L47/56
Filed: 2020-06-09
Abstract: A method for transmitting media data in a network comprising first, second, and third processing devices (105, fig. 1) connected in cascade comprises, at the first device: initializing and starting a timer at the beginning of a media data capturing period 602; receiving at least one packet of media data from the second device and forwarding it to the third device; determining with a timer whether a time delay has elapsed since receiving the last packet from the second device (i.e. a second trigger) 604; and, if it has, transmitting to the third device a packet of locally obtained media data 605. Thus sensor data may be transmitted according to a predetermined sequence. Each device may wait for upstream devices to complete their transmission before starting transmission of local data, and may identify the end of upstream transmission by identifying an information item in the last packet of a set (i.e. a first trigger) 603. The invention may be relevant to applications with many sensors, such as wide video surveillance and multi-camera capture systems, and may improve the use of bandwidth in systems where each device has an allocated transmission time slot and a variable bit rate.
Patent GB-2586916-A (GB)
Title: Surgical apparatus
Inventor: DVIR COHEN
IPC: A61B34/35
Filed: 2020-07-16
Abstract: A surgical apparatus comprising: an electrical-tool at a distal end of an articulated mechanical arm 102; a flexible sleeve 210 disposed in a bendable portion of the arm, the sleeve 210 having an outer surface comprising a plurality of surface features defining a helical wire-path around a central longitudinal axis CL of sleeve 210; and an electrically conductive wire 255 on an outside of sleeve 210, wire 255 being engaged with the surface features to follow the helical wire-path and provide an electrical path between the tool and an electrical power source. Preferably, the tool is a surgical tool selected from: a grasper, forceps, scissors, a clamp, a hook and a laser. An actuation cable may pass through an inner conduit of the sleeve 210 to mechanically operate the tool. The plurality of surface features may comprise alternating parallel longitudinal ribs 248 and troughs 249 being helically aligned around the sleeve’s longitudinal axis for a lengthwise sleeve portion, the helical wire-path passing within one of the troughs 249. The arm’s bendable portion may comprise bendable segments or non-contiguous segments. Also disclosed: a teleoperated robotic surgical system; and an apparatus for performing electrosurgical operations using an electrosurgical power generator.
Patent GB-2592090-A (GB)
Title: Circuit board and semiconductor apparatus
Inventor: HIROTAKA SHIOMICHI
IPC: H01L23/64
Filed: 2020-09-08
Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises multiple circuit blocks (eg CPU, RAM, & LOGIC blocks) having a common ground (CGND). In order to reduce voltage supply related EMI other circuit blocks (eg ROM, OSC, REG) have separate ground connections which can also increase the impedance of these circuit blocks. Pad extension regions for substrate ground pads of different circuit blocks (74, 75, figure 9A) allow selective wirebond interconnections (6, figure 9A) to be formed thereby lowering the impedance of circuit blocks selectively enabling the trade off between EMI and impedance to be tailored for different semiconductor device designs using the same substrate pad layout.
Patent GB-2589438-A (GB)
Title: Control system and method for generating steering overlay signal
Inventor: Robyn Caldwell
IPC: B62D15/02
Filed: 2020-09-09
Abstract: A system for controlling generation of a steering wheel overlay signal to control positioning of a host vehicle is provided. The system determines a first boundary of a lane of travel, for example a road marking or road edge, and a target lane position for the host vehicle in relation to the first boundary, such as a predetermined distance from the first boundary. A steering wheel overlay signal, including an intra-lane steering signal for steering the host vehicle toward the target lane position, is generated. The steering wheel overlay signal is removed if a lateral velocity of the host vehicle relative to the first boundary is less than a threshold velocity (for example 0.09 m/s). This may achieve the perception of travelling parallel to the boundary, whilst reducing the total intervention time. Also provided are a vehicle, method and computer program.
Patent GB-2602782-A (GB)
Title: Multi-tip dental luxating tool
Inventor: RUSSELL SULLMAN
IPC: A61C3/14
Filed: 2020-10-20
Abstract: A multi tip dental luxating dental instrument comprises at least two distinct and separate dental luxating components 1, 2 located at the same end of a connecting member 3, with a means of handling 4 located at the other end of the connecting member, on a single luxating elevator dental instrument. The connecting member may divide into at least two branches, and the luxating components and the connecting member do not share the same longitudinal access (fig 10). The instrument may contain at least one elevating member (8, fig 12)
Patent GB-2602061-A (GB)
Title: Face covering
Inventor: RICHARD STURMAN
IPC: A41D13/11
Filed: 2020-12-17
Abstract: A face covering comprising a fabric substrate which includes a covering portion 110 for a wearer’s nose and mouth, and an adhering portion 14 to sit on at least the bridge of the nose including an adhesive layer (18, figure 6) formed of a cured adhesive silicone gel; where the adhering portion is attached to the covering portion in a manner which leaves slack in the adhering portion, that is to say in use this portion is not taught. Preferably the adhering portion is attached to the main cover at a plurality of distinct points (33, figure 1) but the adhesive is continuous. Preferably the cover comprises a pleat (34, figure 1) perpendicular to the top edge of the cover, that is to say vertically, and a second pleat which continues to an anchor portion 102 under the chin; the two pleats forming a bulge 106. The covering portion may have fastening means 112 attached which are angled towards the chin relative to the horizontal. Preferably the adhesive is a polydimethylsiloxane.
Patent GB-2603923-A (GB)
Title: Installing a window assembly
Inventor: COLIN COBBING
IPC: E06B3/67
Filed: 2021-02-18
Abstract: The window assembly comprises an outboard frame 12 and an inboard frame 14, each defining a respective opening with a respective window sash 16, 24 mounted therein. The outboard and inboard frame are connected together and define a cavity in between. The window sashes are pivotally mounted to their respective frames and are openable. A method of installing the window assembly is also defined wherein inlets and outlets of the window are selected positions for the sashes and they are determined by locating the relative position of an ambient noise source to the window and selecting the positions remote from the noise source. The assembly may include sound deflecting members or sound attenuation members between the inboard and outboard frames.
Patent GB-2593595-A (GB)
Title: Ion guide assembly having multiple ion guides
Inventor: Jason Wildgoose
IPC: H01J49/42
Filed: 2021-03-19
Abstract: An ion guide assembly 2 comprises two planar mounting components 4 and first and second ion guides 6, 8 mounted on the two planar mounting components such that the ion guides 6, 8 are spaced apart from each other. At least one of the planar mounting components 4 has an aperture 14 therethrough that is located between the positions on said at least one mounting component 4 at which the first and second ion guides 6, 8 are mounted. An ion optical device is inserted through the aperture 14 in the planar mounting component 4 and into the space between the first and second ion guides 6, 8. The ion optical device may be a fragmentation device, an activation device or reaction device. This allows for easier alignment of ion guiding paths and components particularly when certain ion optical devices need to be removed and replaced.
Patent GB-2595057-A (GB)
Title: Multi-configuration thermometer
Inventor: CHELSEA HIRSCHHORN
IPC: G01K13/20
Filed: 2021-05-10
Abstract: A multi-configuration thermometer 100 operates in any of a plurality of modes, including a rectal mode, an underarm mode and an oral mode. A probe arm 108 rotates about an axis that is located closer to one end of an elongate thermometer body 102 than it is to the other end. In a first, rectal configuration fig. 1, only a limited length of the probe arm extends beyond a front end of the thermometer body. In a second configuration fig. 5, the probe arm is swung to a position such that its free end is farther from a second end of the body than it was from a first end while in the first configuration. The probe arm is spring-loaded to lock to a user-selected one of the configurations and is torsionally biased to the more compact first configuration. Different sensing algorithms may be used depending on the mode selected. An LED lamp 214 figs. 2, 8 may be mounted in the 1st end of the body to illuminate a probe insertion point of a patient. A lamp switch button 800 fig. 8 mounted in the body, is operable by pressing the probe arm against the switch to turn the LED on / off.
Patent GB-2609487-A (GB)
Title: Registration request handling in a cellular network
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER PUDNEY
IPC: H04W48/20
Filed: 2021-08-05
Abstract: A request for registration by a User Equipment (UE) to a cellular network is handled. The geographical coverage of the cellular network is divided into a plurality of tracking areas, 5, each tracking areas having a respective identifier. A registration request message is communicated from the UE to the cellular network via an access node. Where the registration request is rejected, a registration rejection message is communicated in response. The registration request message and/or the registration rejection message includes the identifier for each of one or more tracking areas to which the respective 10 message applies.
Patent GB-2607648-A (GB)
Title: Variable-level integrity checks for communications in process control environments
Inventor: ANDREW E CUTCHIN
IPC: G05B19/418
Filed: 2021-12-08
Abstract: The disclosure enables process control devices to transmit and receive device variable values in a manner that enables the receiving device to verify the integrity of the received values. In a first step 605, a process control device (60A, fig 1) detects a value of a device variable. A second step 610 calculates a data integrity check, such as a cyclic redundancy check from the variable value and a seed. To facilitate verification of integrity, any desired number of variables in a message may have a data integrity check. A third step 615 encodes a message with the value and integrity check, which is then, in a fourth step 620 transmitted. A second data integrity check is calculated (715, fig 7) and a comparison made (725, fig 7) to determine whether the value has been changed, and on the basis of this the value can be ignored or used.
Patent GB-2607161-A (GB)
Title: Cooling a rotating electrical machine
Inventor: Richard Matthew Barden
IPC: H02K9/193
Filed: 2022-03-16
Abstract: An electric machine with a stator 16, a housing 24, stator end windings 18, a hollow rotor 30, a coolant circuit which provides coolant to the rotor via a passageway 34 in the housing, perhaps in an endplate, and an injection tube 32, the coolant exiting the rotor through holes 36 at the ends of the rotor and then cooling the end windings. The injection tube may be radially central and stationary, being attached to the enclosure 24, with the coolant being introduced in the axial centre 33 of the machine. There may be an air gap between the injection tube and the coolant flowing on the inside surface 14 of the rotor, which may be tapered to propel the coolant outwards. The coolant exit from the rotor may be a hole 36 into the motor interior, which hole may be axial. The machine may have additional coolant passages 58, perhaps formed between inner and outer housings 20, 21 to cool the outside of the stator. These may be fed from the same coolant circuit 52, and may also include outlets 70 to cool the end windings.
Patent GB-2607987-A (GB)
Title: Demand driven crowdsourcing for UAV sensor data
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
IPC: B64C39/02
Filed: 2022-04-07
Abstract: A method of operating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising receiving a request for a first set of data to be gathered by the unmanned aircraft system 400, identifying a first unmanned aircraft system capable of gathering the first data 406, transmitting a request to the first unmanned aircraft system to gather the first set of data 410, and receiving the first set of data gathered by the first unmanned aircraft system 416. There is also claimed an apparatus comprising one or more processors, one or more memory modules, machine-readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to perform the method. The method may further comprise the step of the first unmanned aircraft denying the request, and a second unmanned aircraft being identified, and a request transmitted to the second aircraft. The method may further include the step of determining the planned routes of the aircraft and determining that the first unmanned aircraft system is capable of gathering the data.
Patent GB-2611384-A (GB)
Title: Support device and electronic system
Inventor: RIYI LING
IPC: F16M11/20
Filed: 2022-04-12
Abstract: A support device includes a seat 110 for contacting a bearing surface and a support body 120 for supporting an output device 300 which faces a first direction (A fig. 1). The support body includes a first receiving space (121) configured to accommodate at least a part of a processing device 200. The support body includes at least one opening facing a second direction where at least a part of an interaction part of the processing device is exposed through the opening. The second direction is different from an opposite direction of the first direction (e.g. different than B, fig. 1).
Patent GB-2606639-A (GB)
Title: Package containing water-soluble capsules
Inventor: ROSS DAVID ASHTON
IPC: C11D3/382
Filed: 2022-05-05
Abstract: A package comprising at least one layer of biodegradable material and containing a plurality of unit dose products, at least one unit dose product comprising a detergent composition comprising hydrogenated castor oil within a sealed compartment formed by a water-soluble film. The package may comprise cooperating lid 1 and base 8 members. The base may comprise a leak resistant barrier material and the lid may comprise a moisture vapour transmission barrier. The package may have a pair of opposing walls with pressable zones 10 which engage a child proof locking mechanism. The package may have an average width of 9-15 cm. The lid may comprise a top sheet and two opposing walls attached thereto, and the base may comprise a bottom surface and two opposing walls attached thereto. The detergent composition may comprise 5-15% wt water, may comprise a bittering agent, may comprise phthalocyanine.
Patent GB-2604775-A (GB)
Title: High-pressure multilateral junction with mainbore and lateral access and control
Inventor: DAVID JOE STEELE
IPC: E21B43/26
Filed: 2020-12-10
Abstract: Provided is a y-block, a multilateral junction, and a method for forming a well system. The y-block, in one aspect, includes a housing having a first end and a second opposing end, and a single first bore extending into the housing from the first end, the single first bore defining a first centerline. The y-block according to this aspect further includes second and third separate bores extending into the housing and branching off from the single first bore, the second bore defining a second centerline and the third bore defining a third centerline, wherein the second and third centerlines are angled relative to one another.
Patent GB-2608935-A (GB)
Title: Complex part inspection with eddy current sensors
Inventor: NEIL J GOLDFINE
IPC: G01N29/24
Filed: 2019-04-09
Abstract: A system for defect detection comprises; a sensor array having a plurality of sense elements; an encoder to record a spatial position of the sensor array; a memory unit storing a signature library 706 comprising a plurality of defect signatures, each signature having on a first number of channels a defect response as a function of spatial position, the first number being two or more; means to collect measurements 701 from each of the sense elements of the array as a function of spatial position; and a correlation module 703 to correlate as a function of spatial position the measurements from a subset of sense elements with each defect signature in the library, the subset of sense elements has the first number of sense elements. A method of using the system is defined. The sensor array may be an eddy current array or a capacitive sensor array.
Patent GB-2610075-A (GB)
Title: Event correlation in fault event management
Inventor: PETER MILLS
IPC: G06Q10/06
Filed: 2021-03-09
Abstract: A method for predicting cost reduction of event correlation in fault event management includes one or more processors receiving a plurality of candidate correlation groups of events in a set of fault events. The method further includes, for each candidate correlation group of events, one or more processors predicting a resource cost reduction in resolving the respective correlation group of events compared to resolving all events in the respective correlation group individually. The method further includes one or more processors analyzing the predicted resource cost reductions for the plurality of candidate correlation groups of events. The method further includes one or more processors selecting a candidate correlation group based on the analysis of predicted resource cost reductions.
Patent GB-2612730-A (GB)
Title: Load balancing in streams parallel regions
Inventor: HENRY CHIU
IPC: G06F9/46
Filed: 2021-07-20
Abstract: In response to receiving a flow of data, one or more operators in a parallel region included in a distributed data processing system for stream processing the flow of data are initialized. In response to identifying a change to the flow of data or a change to the distributed data processing system, at least one of the flow of data and a size of the parallel region included in the distributed data processing system are dynamically adjusted. The flow of data is processed via the dynamically adjusted one of the flow of data and the parallel region included in the distributed data processing system.